getimage vs direct url from apache

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Posted by jisri on February 8, 2012 at 5:05am

Assuming images gets re-sized when uploaded, why drupal uses getimage to include images and thumbs
if it is much faster to access the images directly through apache?
I always notice high cpu utilization when I load a page full of images.
How can I avoid this and include direct url to all my images?

thanks for any comments or suggestions.

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Posted by mikeytown2 on February 8, 2012 at 7:49am
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If your using a private file system it will use PHP/Drupal to make sure that user has permissions to view that image. Image derivatives happen on request, not on upload. Solutions below

Make re-size on upload happen:
6.x - http://drupal.org/project/imageinfo_cache

Fixes for private file systems:
6.x - http://drupal.org/project/xsend
7.x - http://drupal.org/project/xsendfile